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"The good man brings good things out of the good stored up in him, and the evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in him." (From a teaching of Jesus, Matthew 12:35)
You may have already heard or read that Miep Gies, the woman who joined her husband in hiding the family of Anne Frank during World War 2, passed away yesterday at the age of 100. She was a Follower of Jesus Christ, aka, Christian. Correction to the e-mail I sent earlier-- I was in the house of the Corrie ten Boom family in Haarlem, The Netherlands, the actual "Hiding Place," in 1976, not the Gies House. It was just after my first mission trip behind the Iron Curtain. I shall never forget the sense of privilege to be in the house of people who risked their lives to save others. The Gies and the ten Boom family were just two Christian families out of so many throughout Europe who risked their lives to save Jews during the Holocaust. Miep said in an online chat with school children not long before she died, "I don't want to be a hero. Imagine young people would grow up with the feeling that you have to be a hero to do your human duty. I am afraid nobody would ever help other people....I was just an ordinary housewife and secretary." (Blessed "ordinary.")
"The good man brings good things out of the good stored up...." So many try to be "super hero" Christians, make the "big splash," do some great thing, "all for Jesus," of course, yet they have "stored up" so very little of the "God-Breathed" Word in them. Then when the unexpected happens, as in Europe in the early part of the twentieth century, they are confused with what it "brings..out." This is a simple statement, yet filled with awesome consequences,
When life "happens," what has gone in is what comes out.
Father, in Jesus' I want to be ordinary, as Miep was ordinary. Amen.
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When 18 year old Peter Torjesen "heard the call to evangelize China, he not only emptied his wallet into the collection plate, but included a small note with the words, 'and my life.'"
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Hebrews 12:2
